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Remote Ruby

Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill

Rubyists having conversations and interviewing others about Ruby and web development.

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  • #349
    May 1 · 50 min

    Behind the Scenes: Developing Podias New Version

    Chris, Andrew, and David open with some classic confusion over what day it is then dive into Podia’s gradual rollout of a major new app version, including how the team is handling migration, feature flags, dogfooding, and eventual cleanup. From there, the discussion turns to underrated Rails routing features like direct routes and resolve routes, a newly merged Rails query command, observability improvements through Hatchbox’s AppSignal integration, and the ongoing pain of CSS build tooling in Rails apps. They also touch on conference season and their upcoming talks. Press download now to hear more! Links Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Direct Routes Instance Public methods-direct (name, options = {}, &block) Instance Public methods-resolve (*args, &block) GitHub-Query command for read-only database queries #57156 App Signal for Hatchbox Blastoff Rails-June 11-12, 2026, Albuquerque, NM Frontend Masters Workshop-May 26, 2026-Getting Started with Rails (Chris Oliver) Toronto Tech Week- May 25-29, 2026 Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

  • #348
    April 24 · 39 min

    Ruby Central Restructuring

    This BREAKING NEWS episode is a candid reaction to Ruby Central’s latest shakeup, with Chris, Andrew, and David unpacking leadership departures, financial strain, the cancelled gala, and what all of it says about the organization’s direction. The conversation moves beyond the headlines into bigger questions about trust, transparency, community values, conference strategy, RubyGems sustainability, and whether Ruby Central can rebuild credibility by involving more of the community in what happens next. Hit download now to hear more! Links Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift A New Chapter for Ruby Central RubyConf 2026- July 14-16, Las Vegas, NV Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

  • #347
    April 17 · 1 hr 22 min

    Joined by John Athayde

    Chris and David welcome guest John Athayde, who runs the branding and UX consultancy, Meticulous. They dive into John’s unusual path through the Rails world as a designer, front-end developer, consultant, author, and UX thinker. The conversation moves from early Rails history and The Rails View into a broader discussion about why designers need to understand implementation, how AI is changing product and UI work, where component-based design is headed, and why browser support is still one of the messiest parts of modern web development. Hit download now to hear more! Links John Athayde Website John Athayde X John Athayde Bluesky Meticulous Build Software Like Pixar Makes Movies with John Athayde-The Swift Kick Show The Rails View: Create a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience by Bruce Williams and John Athayde (O’Reilly) Quick ui.sh demo- Adam Wathan X This is the most user -unfriendly form UI- @tkm_hmng8 X Duck Hunt - Wes Bos X Rails World 2026-Austin, TX September 23-24 Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

  • #346
    April 10 · 38 min

    Governance, Security Flaws, and AI Tools

    This episode of Remote Ruby opens with stories of exhaustion from a sleepless week. Then, Chris, Andrew, and David spend most of the episode unpacking two big themes: trust and governance in open source, and the growing mess of software security and AI-assisted development. They dig into the new Ruby Central write-up on the RubyGems/Bundler fracture and question whether it actually clarifies the path forward, then pivot into the Axios npm compromise, supply-chain risk, and how fragile modern package ecosystems can feel. Then, they go into a wide-ranging discussion on AI coding, bloated production apps, image-performance headaches, CSS/rendering quirks, and why teams may need to rethink APIs, CLIs, MCPs, and markdown-first docs as agent traffic keeps growing. Hit download now to hear more! Links Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift RubyGems Fracture Incident Report Bundler has moved to the RubyGems organization (GitHub) Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise (Microsoft Security blog) Garry Tan X The Missing GitHub Status Page Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

  • #345
    April 3 · 59 min

    Memcached Mayhem

    On this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David bounce from Ruby and Rails security updates into the messy realities of caching, UI architecture, and browser support. They break down the latest Zlib-related Ruby CVE, Dalli updates, Rails security and bugfix releases, and what maintenance windows mean in practice. Then, they swap stories about Redis, Memcached, observations about GitHub’s reliability amid massive Claude attributed code activity, and the kinds of performance problems that only show up at scale. The episode closes with a thoughtful Rails frontend discussion covering nested layouts, active sidebar links, CSS-powered empty states, pagination behavior, popovers, anchor positioning, and why Safari still makes simple UI work harder than it should be. Hit download now to hear more! Links Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Zlib::GzipReader Dalli Memcached Attributed Claude activity over the last 90 days on GitHub (Armin Ronacher X) The Standup with ThePrimeagen Podcast-Is AI ruining opensource? (Lost episode) Nested Layouts with Rails (GoRails) current_page? link_to_if Geared Pagination Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

  • #344
    March 27 · 34 min

    Conferences, AI Trends, and Sleepless Nights

    Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout. David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions news and this year’s broad conference themes. They discuss Andrew finishing difficult authentication work, touching on OAuth/SSO complexity and pricing, the idea of products built more for bots than humans, and where AI is proving useful, especially for debugging and research. The conversation eventually widens into a more skeptical look at the AI industry itself, touching on scraped code, deepfakes, surveillance, lobbying, and whether the promised productivity gains really match reality. Hit download now! Links Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Invincible Fallout Robby Russell X Sam Altman X Ghostty Ruby 4.0.2 Released RubyConf: July 14-16, 2026, Las Vegas, NV Rails World 2026- September 23-24, Austin, TX (Update) Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

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